Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/lʿacar-

This Proto-Georgian-Zan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Georgian-Zan

Etymology

From *lʿa- +‎ *car-.

Noun

*lʿa-car-

sieve, sifter, strainer

Descendants

Old Georgian: საცერი (saceri) (← *სა-ცარ- (*sa-car-))
- Georgian: საცერი (saceri)
  - → Mingrelian: საცირი (saciri)
  - → Ossetian: сасир (sasir)
  - → Udi: сацер (sacer)
Zan:
- ⇒ Laz: ონცორუ (onʒoru), ონცირუ (onʒiru), ონცირუში (onʒiruşi)

Unsorted borrowings

→ Bezhta: лъацар (lˢacar), лъацай (lˢacaj)

References

Čikobava, Arnold (1938) Č̣anur-megrul-kartuli šedarebiti leksiḳoni [Laz–Megrel–Georgian Comparative Dictionary] (Works; IV) (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, published 2008, pages 178–179
Klimov, G. A. (1998), “*car- : *cr-, *(s)a-cer-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 262, 175
Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc; Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, pages 575–576
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 554